Many thanks to JAF430 for beta-testing and editing this puzzle and assisting with placement of ten of the eleven hides in this series!
Thanks to mmammel for catching an error at 3-Down, which has been corrected.
Solve the crossword, then figure out the keyword hiding within the completed grid; when you enter the 8-letter keyword into Certitude, you'll receive the coords to the actual location of the hide.
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ACROSS
1 Ledger item
5 A in AFDC, estab. by the Soc. Sec. Act of 1935 to help needy children
8 Author who penned The Divine Comedy
13 Pest which might bother a cacher in the woods Spring through Autumn
14 James Sidney Edouard, Baron ___, Belgian painter and printmaker associated with Les XX
15 Mutts
16 Escapade
18 Clinch
19 Stand
20 Stop standing
22 Criticize
24 Volkswagen luxury car discontinued in 2016—or the unfortunate son of Helios and Clymene
26 Heat of mind or emotion; passion
28 The ___ of the Shrew, comedy in which Christopher Sly is a major character
31 “Mighty ___,” BB-63, now a museum ship
32 In Dijon, it means useful
35 Synonyme de dans
36 Unhurried
38 Bucket ___
39 Young of “Harvest Moon” and “Lost in Space” or Armstrong who was first to moonwalk
41 Shelly’s “Ode ___ the West Wind”
42 Flight info
43 ___ Passos, author of Three Soldiers and The 42nd Parallel
45 Short for a Latin phrase in bibliographies that means a place of publication is unknown
46 Discovers deceivers?
52 The ___, a rocky hill on the Trotternish peninsula of the Isle of Skye, above the Sound of Raasay
53 Vegetable dish from Kerala cuisine, essential for Sadya (served on plantain leaves)
55 Nathan John Feuerstein, rapper, songwriter known for Let You Down and Paralyzed
56 “The professor droned on ___ ___, putting half his students to sleep.”
60 Uncle Henry’s wife, played by Mary Carr (1925) and Clara Blandick (1939)
61 Coleridge’s “The Rime of the ___ Mariner”
64 The Kate Pearl ___ ___ in Westminster, 111 Stoner Avenue
67 Binds
69 DC Comics “Bird of Prey” combatant Aleksandr
70 Silences
71 Milne’s The House at Pooh ___
DOWN
1 “And I could but won’t cite any more examples.”
2 Vardalos of My Big Fat Greek Wedding and Long of Empire
3 It works with IP, which defines how computers send packets of data to each other; it and UDP are foundational pillars of the Internet
4 Auto perks used before drivers take the wheel
5 Weak-flying blackbird with a deeply ridged black bill
6 Blood disorder
7 Kit’s mom
9 The ___ of Provo, Utah, comprised of Henderson, Petty, and the Ramirez sisters
10 It could be flanged, winged, or locking—or filbert or cashew
11 Faithful or verifiable
12 Somewhat controversial 6th sense?
17 Ready for consumption
19 Lollobrigida, who played De Ritis to De Sica’s Carotenuto in Bread, Love and Dreams (1953)
21 Shoves
22 Showers lots of love upon
23 According to ATF, 8.1 billion rounds of it were produced in America in 2018
25 ___ item veto
26 It could be nuclear or beta
27 Half the letters usually above “You Are Not Forgotten” on a black and white flag
29 Bishops, Knights, Rooks, Kings, and, somewhat ironically, even Queens
30 Mew
33 Deck wood, often
34 Creative Haze, You’re Bluffing, and Nightmare, among others, brewed in Hopkins, MN
37 Hooligan
40 Rae of Awkward Black Girl
42 Stirrup site
44 Hemingway novella written in Cayo Blanco, Cuba: The Old Man and the ___
47 British sex offenders
48 Shorter version of the name of a wholesale seafood distributor at 7211 Rolling Mill Rd 21224
49 Alternative to grass seed
50 To prove to be wrong: “s’___ faux”
51 Former Secretary-General of the United Nations (2007-16) Ban ___-___
52 Peace lily
54 Debussy work which premiered in Paris in October 1905
56 Even shorter than “Assn. of Nat’l. & Private Schs.” or “AZ Native Plant Soc.”
57 The part of Script. In which Jesus quotes the other part (see 58D)
58 The part sometimes quoted by Jesus (see 57D)
59 Comm. Coll. in Essex County, MA, with campuses in Haverhill and Lawrence, and (in 2001) the first federally designated Hispanic Serving Institution in all of New England
62 Public research univ. in DeKalb, IL, founded in 1895 as Norther Illinois State Normal School
63 Thru partnerships with internatl. univs. this org. offers degree programs; based in Cairo, its acronym looks very like the name for a female sheep
65 Slang for a person who is not able to develop a crush on anyone (i.e., is not romantic)
66 Short for Overtime Elite, in which teams like City Reapers, Cold Hearts, & YNG Dreamers play b’ball
68 A very useful article
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